How would this “give a lot of joy”? Is everybody all about brainless eye-candy and wants to waste developer time on such? Let’s have our Notepad++ developers work on needful features and bug fixes, not silly stuff…

Relax, guys. OP’s only wondering whether such would be possible, perhaps before attempting to implement it himself as an optional plugin.

The main reason i see lots of people jizzing their pants over Sublime Text is that it looks nice. I prefer the superior feature suite of Notepad++ but agree that ST’s Monokai and tabs look better than Npp’s.